Acquiesce to Righteousness

The Word is the voice of the Father. He is not speaking to multitudes. He is speaking to
each one of us. He declares that we have become the Righteousness of God in Him.
We know that we are what He declares us to be.
Then there comes a new sense of mastery. We are coming into our rights, our legal
rights in Christ. Our steps are sure now. No longer is there any uncertainty. We are not
afraid of what the day may bring forth. We know what it means when He says, "Greater
is he that is in you than he that is in the world." We know what it means when He says,
"Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them." He is talking to us. The
sense of mastery, the strange new dignity of sonship, sweeps over our hearts.
We understand what it means to be under orders from heaven. We are ambassadors.
We are clothed with authority from heaven. Luke 24:49, "But tarry ye in the city, until ye
be clothed with ability from on high." Now we understand what Jesus meant when He
said that demons and the forces of darkness would be subject to us. Weakness, fear of
failure-the little kingdoms that once ruled the world have been subordinated by Jesus
Christ. Jesus conquered Satan. Every Satan-ruled force is subject to His Name.
He put Satan and all his works under our feet.
Now we know what Redemption means. We know we have become "the fullness of Him
that filleth all in all." We know that "of His fullness have we all received and grace upon
grace. We know that we have received "the abundance of grace and the gift of
righteousness." We reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ. W e begin to
understand I Cor. 12:3, "And no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit."
Now we say it as New Creations conscious of our standing and our rights. Satan's
dominion has been broken. The Lordship of Jesus has begun.
We shall not want because we are one with Him. He is the Vine, we are the branches.
We are the fruit bearing portion of the Vine. We are His lips! We are His hands!
We are living with Him. He is living in us unseen but real. We walk with Him.
All this Righteousness gives us.
RIGHTEOUSNESS UNDER THE COVENANTS
IT thrilled me when I realized what mighty achievements were wrought by men who had
only limited Righteousness under the First Covenant. I thought of Abraham. As soon
as he was circumcised and came into the Covenant, God gave him a limited
Righteousness. I thought of his daring to stand in the presence of God and plead for
Sodom and Gomorrah with that lofty fearlessness that is not matched in our modern day
by men who know their unlimited Righteousness and rights in Christ.
I thought of the mighty acts of Moses who only had a servant's place before Jehovah,
yet he dared to obey God and achieved such marvelous victories for that slave nation,
Israel. I thought of Joshua who dared to obey Jehovah and led that nation down to the
shore of the Jordan when it was at flood-tide. He dared to say to the priests, "Take the
Ark and go down and dip your feet into the water, and when you do a way will be